Between the buried and me

Between the Buried and Me
Between the Buried and Me in June 2010 at Porto, Portugal.
Background information
Origin	Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.
Genres	Progressive metal technical death metal avant-garde metal metalcore
Years active	2000–present
Labels	Lifeforce Victory Metal Blade
Associated acts	Glass Casket August Burns Red Meshuggah Prayer for Cleansing Trioscapes Orbs Oh, Sleeper Evelynn
Members	Tommy Giles Rogers Paul Waggoner Dustie Waring Dan Briggs Blake Richardson
Past members	Will Goodyear Nicholas Shawn Fletcher Jason Schofield King Mark Edward Castillo Kevin Falk Shane Blay Jason Roe

Between the Buried and Me is an American progressive metal band from Raleigh, North Carolina. Formed in 2000, the band consists of Tommy Giles Rogers, Jr. (lead vocals, keyboards), Paul Waggoner (guitars, backing vocals), Dustie Waring (guitars), Dan Briggs (bass, keyboards), and Blake Richardson (drums).

Their debut eponymous album was released through Lifeforce Records in 2002, shifting to Victory Records for subsequent releases until 2011. Signing to Metal Blade in 2011, Between the Buried and Me released their first extended play, The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues in 2011 and its full-length follow-up The Parallax II: Future Sequence the following year. Their eighth studio album, Coma Ecliptic, was released in 2015.

The band was formed in 2000 in Raleigh, North Carolina after the demise of the metalcore band Prayer for Cleansing, of which Rogers and Waggoner were members. Nick Fletcher, Jason King, and Will Goodyear subsequently joined on guitar, bass, and drums respectively. The name "Between the Buried and Me" was chosen after a section of lyrics in the Counting Crows song, "Ghost Train":

"Took the cannonball down to the ocean/Across the desert from the sea to shining sea/I rode a ladder that climbed across the nation/Fifty million feet of earth between the buried and me."